Experts are resuming the effort to solve one of the most tragic and disconcerting mysteries in commercial aviation later this month.
Marine experts say that at the end of December, they will restart the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which disappeared from the sky more than 11 years ago.
Malaysia’s transportation ministry said on Wednesday that the new search for the vanished aircraft will be conducted by a Texas marine robotics company, Ocean Infinity, according to the Associated Press.
Flight MH370 was scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, but disappeared from the radar not long after takeoff. According to the AP, satellite data at the time showed that shortly before disappearing, the plane deviated from its flight path and flew south to the far-Southern Indian Ocean, where it likely crashed. The Boeing 777 plane was carrying 239 people.
Despite numerous large-scale search efforts over the years, no wreckage has ever been recovered, except for small pieces of debris that washed ashore in East Africa and nearby islands.
Malaysia will pay Ocean Infinity $70 million, but only if the missing Boeing 777 plane is discovered. The firm plans to begin its deep-sea search on December 30 and continue the effort intermittently for 55 days in specific areas with the highest likelihood of holding the wreckage.
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